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BWI sets fiscal year passenger record with 12th...

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The past year has been a busy one at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport as each of the past 12 months the airport has seen a monthly record number of passengers travel out of the terminals. BWI announced Thursday that 2,347,077 passengers traveled through the airport in June. That represents an increase of 7.6 percent over the same time period last year and a new June passenger record. International passenger travel in the month increased about 15 percent. The month of…

Whatsapp will share your phone number with...

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If you use WhatsApp for messaging friends and family, get ready for Facebook to learn even more about you. WhatsApp announced in a blog post Thursday that it will begin to share phone numbers and other data on the activity of its one billion users wit…



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Here's what happened to AIDS drug that spiked...

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Outrage over the massive EpiPen price hike feels like deja vu. A year ago, America was in shock when a drug called Daraprim that’s used by some AIDS and transplant patients skyrocketed overnight from $13.50 to $750 a pill.



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Baltimore area is above U.S. average for big homes

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The inventory of big homes in the Baltimore area is larger than the national average. Some 22.1 percent of local homes have at least four bedrooms, compared to an average of 21.4 percent for the nation’s major urbanized areas, according to U.S. Census Data. Click on the View Slideshow button below for a rundown of the 50 biggest markets. Baltimore ranks 25th in the U.S. among the 50 biggest markets for big homes. The Baltimore area has 944,628 housing units, with 208,382 being at least four bedrooms. America's…

M&T Bank looks within to fill head of retail,...

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A series of managerial changes at M&T Bank means there’s a new executive in charge of retail and business banking. Neil Hosty, a native of Galway, Ireland who first joined M&T in 2002 and then returned in 2013, now oversees retail branches and ATMs for the entire bank. He succeeds Darren King, who was promoted to chief financial officer in April. King succeeded Rene Jones, one of M&T’s three vice chairmen, who is now the head of mortgage and commercial lending, treasury and M&T’s Wilmington…

This Inner Harbor restaurant was named one of the...

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With the Inner Harbor in the center of downtown Baltimore it is no surprise when diners look for restaurants with a great view so they can enjoy good food at the same time they enjoy the beauty of the harbor. The best view in Baltimore, however, may be at the Inner Harbor staple the Rusty Scupper. OpenTable, an online restaurant reservation and review website, recently released its top 100 most scenic restaurants in America list for 2016. While states like California and Florida were well represented,…

Jimmy Choo's stock is spiking. Here's why

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Investors are drooling over Jimmy Choo shares after the company said sales of men’s shoes are spiking and its business in China is booming. The luxury shoe brand is hugely popular among female fashionistas, and a pair of stilettos can easily sell for …



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Hillary Clinton's California swing yields $19...

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Hillary Clinton raised over $19 million during a three-day, nine fundraiser swing through California this week, putting the former secretary of state on pace to make August the largest fundraising month of her 2016 campaign.



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Colombo Bank is finally out from under stricter...

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Colombo Bank CEO Gilbert Kennedy was on vacation in Ocean City last month when he got the call from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The agency informed him the bank, which has a longtime Little Italy branch, had been released from the heightened regulatory scrutiny it had been under for years. “I typed an email on my phone to all my employees at the bank letting them know,” Kennedy said. “I still have all their responses in a folder, and I will still have them when I retire.” It's…

Mylan pledges to make EpiPen more affordable

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Mylan announced a series of steps Thursday it says will make its EpiPen more affordable for some patients. The drugmaker is caught at the center of a firestorm over the rising price of prescription drugs. Mylan had raised a standard two-pack of EpiPen…



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